{"componentChunkName":"component---src-templates-author-jsx","path":"/blog/author/karan_chhina/","result":{"data":{"prismic":{"allFeaturedblogs":{"edges":[{"node":{"featured_blogs_enabled":true,"heading":[{"type":"paragraph","text":"Featured posts","spans":[]}],"featured_blog_1":{"__typename":"PRISMIC_Blog","_linkType":"Link.document","blog_header_image":{"dimensions":{"width":790,"height":395},"alt":null,"copyright":null,"url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/6d8d81b1-971a-4313-b033-b4e125cb14a0_MondoDB-blog-header-790x395.PNG?auto=compress,format"},"blog_headline":[{"type":"heading1","text":"Introducing DigitalOcean Managed MongoDB – a fully managed, database as a service for modern apps","spans":[]}],"blog_post_date":"2021-06-29","blog_post_content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":"MongoDB is one of the most popular databases, and it’s ideal for apps that evolve rapidly and need to handle huge volumes of data and traffic. It offers advantages like flexible document schemas, code-native data access, change-friendly design, and easy horizontal scale-out.","spans":[{"start":22,"end":44,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://db-engines.com/en/ranking","target":"_blank"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"However, building and maintaining MongoDB clusters from the ground up can be a huge undertaking. Developers often complain that they have to spend their valuable time and resources on database management. Well, we’ve been listening and have some great news: accessing and managing MongoDB on DigitalOcean just got a lot simpler!","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We are excited to announce that DigitalOcean Managed MongoDB is now in General Availability. Managed MongoDB is a fully managed, database as a service (DBaaS) offering from DigitalOcean, built in partnership with and certified by MongoDB Inc. It provides you all the technical capabilities that make MongoDB so beloved in the developer community. Together we have ensured that you will get access to all the latest releases of the MongoDB document database as they become available.","spans":[{"start":32,"end":91,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/products/managed-databases-mongodb/"}},{"start":230,"end":241,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.mongodb.com/","target":"_blank"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Managed MongoDB simplifies the MongoDB administration. Developers of all skill levels, even those who do not have prior experience in databases, can spin up MongoDB clusters in just a few minutes. We handle the provisioning, managing, scaling, updates, backups, and security of your MongoDB clusters, allowing you to offload the complex, time consuming –yet critical – database administration tasks to us. This empowers you to focus on what really matters: building awesome apps.","spans":[]},{"type":"embed","oembed":{"height":113,"width":200,"embed_url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvHQSV7jnKA","type":"video","version":"1.0","title":"Create a MongoDB Database on DigitalOcean","author_name":"DigitalOcean","author_url":"https://www.youtube.com/c/Digitalocean","provider_name":"YouTube","provider_url":"https://www.youtube.com/","cache_age":null,"thumbnail_url":"https://i.ytimg.com/vi/NvHQSV7jnKA/hqdefault.jpg","thumbnail_width":480,"thumbnail_height":360,"html":"<iframe width=\"200\" height=\"113\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/NvHQSV7jnKA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen></iframe>"}},{"type":"heading2","text":"Benefits of Managed MongoDB","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"","spans":[]},{"type":"list-item","text":"Easy set up and maintenance: We create the database clusters for you. Simply choose the cluster configuration (e.g., memory, disk size, number of nodes, etc.), and the data center in which you want to host the database. Follow a few simple steps and your database cluster will be up and running in a matter of minutes. You can spin up clusters using the cloud control panel, CLI, or API.\n\n","spans":[{"start":0,"end":28,"type":"strong"}]},{"type":"list-item","text":"Automatic daily backups with point in time recovery: Data is one of the most important assets of an app, so it’s critical to backup your database. We take backups of your entire clusters automatically on a daily basis, for free. We also provide a point in time recovery for 7 days, that way if things go wrong due to human error, machine error, or some combination of both, you can easily restore the database as it was at any point in the previous 7 days. \n\n","spans":[{"start":0,"end":52,"type":"strong"}]},{"type":"list-item","text":"Automatic updates and access to latest MongoDB releases: You get access to MongoDB 4.4. This is the latest release of MongoDB and comes packed with numerous enhancements like hedged reads, rust, and swift drivers. Since we have developed Managed MongoDB in partnership with MongoDB Inc, you will always get access to new releases as they become available. With Managed MongoDB, the updates happen automatically. Just select a date and time for the updates and we take care of the rest. This makes it easy to stay up to date with MongoDB releases without disrupting your business.\n\n","spans":[{"start":0,"end":56,"type":"strong"},{"start":148,"end":169,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.mongodb.com/new","target":"_blank"}}]},{"type":"list-item","text":"High availability with automated failover: If your database goes down, it can take down the entire app, leading to bad customer experiences. With Managed MongoDB, you can easily minimize the downtime for your database and make it highly available with standby nodes. Standby nodes add redundancy, so if for example the primary node fails, the standby node is immediately promoted to primary and begins serving requests while we provision a replacement standby node in the background.\n\n","spans":[{"start":0,"end":42,"type":"strong"}]},{"type":"list-item","text":"Scale up easily to handle traffic spikes: As your app gains traction and the usage grows, it’s important to have a database that can keep up with the increased demand. With Managed MongoDB, you can easily scale up the size of database nodes when needed.\n\n","spans":[{"start":0,"end":41,"type":"strong"}]},{"type":"list-item","text":"Secure by default: Since data is critical, it also needs to be secure. We encrypt data at rest with LUKS and in transit with SSL. When you create a new cluster, it’s placed in a VPC network by default that provides a more secure connection between resources. You can also restrict access to your nodes to prevent brute-force password and denial-of-service attacks.","spans":[{"start":0,"end":18,"type":"strong"},{"start":178,"end":189,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/docs/networking/vpc/"}}]},{"type":"heading2","text":"The need for Managed Databases","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"DigitalOcean’s mission is to simplify cloud computing so developers, startups, and SMBs can spend more time building software that changes the world. While databases are a critical component to any application, building, maintaining, and scaling them can be complex and time consuming. For developers that are building apps for their business, database administration is often not a core focus area. But it’s quite common to find developers that write the code and then also roll up their sleeves to maintain databases. Such users would rather offload the tedious database administration and focus their limited time and energy on building and enhancing their apps. ","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"With this in mind, we introduced Managed Databases a couple of years ago and are excited to add Managed MongoDB to our portfolio. With this release, DigitalOcean Managed Databases now supports the following engines:","spans":[{"start":33,"end":50,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/products/managed-databases/"}}]},{"type":"image","url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/87745cc1-1c5f-4463-b104-104b7fc30dc7_managed-databases-logos.png?auto=compress,format","alt":null,"copyright":null,"dimensions":{"width":849,"height":104}},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Managed MongoDB launch comes on the heels of DigitalOcean App Platform, a modern, reimagined PaaS (Platform as a Service) that we released a few months ago. App Platform makes it very easy to build, deploy, and scale apps and static sites. You can deploy code by simply pointing to your GitHub and GitLab repos, and App Platform will do all the heavy lifting of managing infrastructure, app runtimes, and dependencies. App Platform, along with Managed Databases, helps fulfill DigitalOcean’s mission by empowering developers, startups, and SMBs to focus more on their apps, and less on the underlying infrastructure and databases.","spans":[{"start":45,"end":70,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/products/app-platform/"}}]},{"type":"heading2","text":"How Managed MongoDB works","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"DigitalOcean provides you with various compute options to build your apps like:","spans":[]},{"type":"list-item","text":"Droplets: On-demand, Linux virtual machines suitable for production business applications and personal passion projects.","spans":[{"start":0,"end":8,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/products/droplets/"}}]},{"type":"list-item","text":"DigitalOcean Kubernetes: Managed Kubernetes with automatic scaling, upgrades, and a free control plane.","spans":[{"start":0,"end":23,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/products/kubernetes/"}}]},{"type":"list-item","text":"DigitalOcean App Platform: A fully managed Platform as a Service.","spans":[{"start":0,"end":25,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/products/app-platform/"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"No matter which compute option you choose to build your apps, you can easily add Managed MongoDB to it. In addition to this, Managed MongoDB also integrates with the Node.js 1-Click App from DigitalOcean Marketplace making it a lot easier to build Node.js apps.","spans":[{"start":166,"end":215,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://marketplace.digitalocean.com/apps/nodejs"}}]},{"type":"heading2","text":"Simple, predictable pricing","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Just like all DigitalOcean products, Managed MongoDB provides simple, predictable pricing that allows you to control costs and prevent any surprise bills. You can spin up a database cluster for just $15/month, or a highly available three-node replica set for $45/month. Click here for more information.","spans":[{"start":270,"end":301,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/#managed-databases"}}]},{"type":"heading2","text":"Regional availability","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Managed MongoDB is currently available in the following regions:","spans":[]},{"type":"list-item","text":"NYC3 (New York, USA)","spans":[]},{"type":"list-item","text":"FRA1 (Frankfurt, Germany)","spans":[]},{"type":"list-item","text":"AMS3 (Amsterdam, Netherlands)","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We will be making Managed Mongo available in other regions soon. 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His keynote will be followed by sessions from community members, engineers, customers, and other experts that are building technologies and businesses powered by the cloud. With live Q&A and an active Discord server, there’s ample opportunity to engage and learn something new. Click here to attend the deploy conference.","spans":[{"start":14,"end":69,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://deploy.digitalocean.com/agenda/session/552806"}},{"start":347,"end":384,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"http://do.co/deploy-discord"}},{"start":461,"end":489,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"http://do.co/deploy"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We are also launching a hackathon for DigitalOcean Managed MongoDB. Learn how you can participate, submit an app and get a t-shirt.","spans":[{"start":24,"end":66,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/mongodb-hackathon"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We hope you will give Managed MongoDB a try. Here are some sample datasets and sample apps that you can use to kick the tires. Check out the docs and let us know what you think!","spans":[{"start":22,"end":43,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://cloud.digitalocean.com/databases/new?engine=mongodb"}},{"start":59,"end":90,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://github.com/do-community/mongodb-resources","target":"_blank"}},{"start":141,"end":145,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/databases/mongodb/"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"If you’d like to have a conversation about using DigitalOcean and Managed MongoDB in your business, please feel free to contact our sales team.","spans":[{"start":120,"end":142,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/company/contact/sales/"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Happy coding!","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"André Bearfield","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Director of Product Management","spans":[]}],"tags":[{"tag1":{"__typename":"PRISMIC_Tag","tag":"Product Updates","_linkType":"Link.document","_meta":{"uid":"product-updates"}}}],"author":{"__typename":"PRISMIC_Author","author_name":"André Bearfield","author_image":{"dimensions":{"width":553,"height":547},"alt":"André Bearfield","copyright":null,"url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/fdc7c85186f0a850b04083e1d4306bd1c19772e8_andre-bearfield.png?auto=compress,format"},"_meta":{"uid":"andre-bearfield"}},"_meta":{"uid":"introducing-digitalocean-managed-mongodb"}},"featured_blog_2":{"__typename":"PRISMIC_Blog","_linkType":"Link.document","blog_header_image":{"dimensions":{"width":790,"height":400},"alt":"Droplet Console","copyright":null,"url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/710499ae-78cc-4179-afc1-15793637b200_DODX3727-790x400-logo-2.jpg?auto=compress,format"},"blog_headline":[{"type":"heading1","text":"Securely connect to Droplets with SSH key pairs using a new Droplet Console","spans":[]}],"blog_post_date":"2021-08-10","blog_post_content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":"The famous author Ken Blanchard once said, “Feedback is the breakfast of champions.\" This is something we truly believe at DigitalOcean, and we always strive to enhance our products based on customer feedback.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"With this goal in mind, we are excited to introduce a new Droplet Console that will make it much easier to connect to your Droplets securely. 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At a high level, SSH works by creating cryptographic key pairs consisting of a public and private key, which are computer generated and stored separately to ensure their security. ","spans":[{"start":80,"end":117,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://cybernews.com/best-password-managers/most-common-passwords/"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"SSH has become the default encryption protocol for many industries, but it was difficult to use SSH keys with DigitalOcean’s current Recovery (VNC) console, which is why we developed our new Droplet Console. The new Droplet Console is backed by an agent that security supervises the key pair, while also providing one-click SSH access to our users. 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","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Writing the code, testing, deployment, monitoring the usage in production, and ensuring that your apps are able to handle the additional demand when customer base and usage grows are all essential and time-consuming tasks.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Additionally, being able to test multiple ideas, pivot, and double down on the ideas that actually work is critical in early stages of SaaS development. Once growth comes, it is equally important to scale up without compromising on performance or reliability. 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The last thing SaaS teams want is surprising and indecipherable bills from your cloud provider. Unfortunately, smaller businesses often experience unpredictable costs with cloud providers who are busy serving only the large enterprises.","spans":[]},{"type":"heading2","text":"DigitalOcean provides a simple, cost effective solution for SaaS builders","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Fortunately, at DigitalOcean we have a laser focus on small software development teams, who are trying to build the next generation of applications. Today, DigitalOcean customers are already building SaaS applications which serve all kinds of customers.","spans":[{"start":191,"end":217,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/solutions/saas/"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We believe SaaS builders should focus on building apps that power their business, and not spend their valuable time on managing infrastructure. 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We feel like we know infrastructure and can handle most of the configuration and management. What we needed from a cloud was not bells and whistles but efficiency and reliability. DigitalOcean provides us a platform to build our apps and then gets out of the way. Just how we like it.” - Achyuth Krishna, Director of Engineering of Whatfix","spans":[{"start":0,"end":7,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://whatfix.com/blog/driving-the-future-now-were-excited-to-announce-our-90-million-series-d-funding/"}},{"start":287,"end":648,"type":"em"}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We understand that scaling while maintaining reliability of applications and profitability of business is important, so we provide robust solutions which minimize downtime.","spans":[]},{"type":"list-item","text":"Centra is a SaaS-based e-commerce platform for global direct-to-consumer and wholesale e-commerce brands. Centra provides a powerful e-commerce backend that lets brands build pixel-perfect, custom designed, online flagship stores. \n\n“How do we enable our customers to create differentiated online experiences? How do we ensure their e-commerce apps stay up and running at all times? How do we scale on-demand when traffic grows or new customers come in? These are the questions that we ask ourselves every day. Thankfully, we have a partner in DigitalOcean that provides just the platform to answer those questions enabling us to guarantee 99.9% uptime for our clients.” - Martin Jensen, CEO of Centra","spans":[{"start":0,"end":6,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://centra.com/"}},{"start":233,"end":673,"type":"em"}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"These are just a few examples of SaaS businesses finding success on DigitalOcean. We are constantly amazed by the creativity and innovation that software builders are utilizing our platform for. 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Virtual machines with 2vCPUs, 16GB of RAM, 50 GB SSD, and 4TB transfer cost $90 per month, plain and simple. Pricing scales from there as you add compute, memory, storage, and bandwidth.","spans":[]},{"type":"image","url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/5a75c2e7a1aa7314c5861fba7ce3d14fa2fda7e6_image--2-.png?auto=compress,format","alt":null,"copyright":null,"dimensions":{"width":732,"height":546}},{"type":"heading2","text":"The Droplet developer experience you know & love","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Memory-Optimized Droplets are tightly integrated into DigitalOcean, so you can create them just as you can any other type of Droplet, both through an easy-to-use graphical interface and via the Droplet API.","spans":[{"start":194,"end":205,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://developers.digitalocean.com/documentation/v2/#droplets"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"All Droplet types – Memory-Optimized, General Purpose, CPU-Optimized, and Standard – include features such as blazing-fast SSD storage, optional backups and snapshots, monitoring and alerts, network firewalls, and more.","spans":[]},{"type":"heading2","text":"Spin up some Memory-Optimized Droplets today","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"After signing into your DigitalOcean account, you’ll see the option to create Memory-Optimized Droplets. From there, you can spin up your VMs in just 55 seconds or less.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Or, if you’d like to have a conversation about using DigitalOcean and Memory-Optimized Droplets in your business, feel free to contact our sales team.","spans":[{"start":127,"end":149,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/company/contact/sales/"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We hope you give Memory-Optimized Droplets a try, and that you never never run out of RAM ever again!","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Happy coding!","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Karan Chhina","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Senior Product Manager, Compute","spans":[]}],"blog_post_date":"2019-09-10","tags":[],"_meta":{"uid":"introducing-memory-optimized-droplets"}}},{"node":{"author":{"_linkType":"Link.document","author_name":"Karan Chhina","author_image":{"dimensions":{"width":554,"height":550},"alt":"Karan Chhina","copyright":null,"url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/b43a85223ca42f817f454615a86497acf668d7c3_karan.png?auto=compress,format"},"_meta":{"uid":"karan_chhina"}},"blog_header_image":{"dimensions":{"width":1200,"height":600},"alt":null,"copyright":null,"url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/0026a57b93abe5b04413765253903472dab58e11_general-droplets_blog-v4_twitter---facebook.png?auto=compress,format"},"blog_headline":[{"type":"heading1","text":"With General Purpose Droplets, you can DO more than ever","spans":[]}],"blog_post_content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":"When DigitalOcean launched back in 2012, our first product – the Droplet – gave developers quick access to virtual machines running in DigitalOcean’s sole NYC-based data center. Unlike other cloud providers that charged north of $90 per month, we kept monthly costs as low as $5 by sharing CPU threads among customers.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Fast forward to 2019, and millions of developers rely on DigitalOcean to learn best practices and run apps in twelve data centers across seven countries. As we’ve grown, developers and business customers have asked us to provide the same simple Droplet developer experience, but for VMs with dedicated compute power.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"That’s why we’re so pleased that – as of today – our new General Purpose Droplets, with a 4:1 ratio of RAM to dedicated CPU, are now Generally Available. Our new Droplets are live and ready to deploy in five of our global data centers: in New York, San Francisco, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, and Singapore. With our new General Purpose Droplets, you’ll be able to do more than ever before.","spans":[{"start":133,"end":152,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/docs/platform/product-lifecycle/#general-availability"}}]},{"type":"heading1","text":"Powering fast performance for production-grade applications","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"General Purpose Droplets are backed by Intel Xeon Platinum 8168 \"Skylake\" Processors, which boast speeds of 2.7GHz. Because your vCPU has a dedicated physical CPU hardware thread, General Purpose Droplets guarantee uninterrupted high performance. 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The box plot below shows the range – the minimum, first quartile, median, third quartile, and maximum time – that it took to complete each run.","spans":[]},{"type":"image","url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/105ce33fc5cdb819a1a866a6ec255dd8185c4dbe_digitalocean-general-purpose-benchmark-linpack.png?auto=compress,format","alt":null,"copyright":null,"dimensions":{"width":2400,"height":2010}},{"type":"paragraph","text":"The second test case is the Terasort benchmark that uses Hadoop for map/reduce computations. In this configuration, we created one controller node and five worker nodes, all of which have to communicate to sort a large dataset. Similarly, we ran the test 10 times, then destroyed the instances, and recreated the same environment.","spans":[]},{"type":"image","url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/9eccad300df6d864dfde4c0475e396250dea5e9f_digitalocean-general-purpose-benchmark-terasort.png?auto=compress,format","alt":null,"copyright":null,"dimensions":{"width":2400,"height":2010}},{"type":"paragraph","text":"In both cases, the General Purpose Droplets’ dedicated compute power resulted in substantially shorter completion times and a more consistent performance profile. This makes them ideal for high-performance applications that require fast, predictable results.","spans":[]},{"type":"heading1","text":"Choosing the right Droplet for your app","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Many developers and operators prefer to first deploy their applications on VMs that possess the balance of RAM and CPU provided by General Purpose Droplets. After deploying with General Purpose Droplets, you can migrate to a different type of Droplet after performance testing. If you find that your app needs consistent compute power, but does not quite need the memory that our General Purpose Droplets provide, then CPU-Optimized Droplets may be a better option. On the other hand, if your app’s CPU usage is bursty but still requires balanced RAM, less expensive Standard Droplets may be a suitable choice.","spans":[{"start":212,"end":250,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/docs/images/snapshots/how-to/migrate-droplets/"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"But, for most production applications that demand consistent, fast performance for end users, General Purpose Droplets are probably your best bet.","spans":[{"start":0,"end":146,"type":"em"}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Your mileage may vary, but we typically recommend General Purpose Droplets for highly trafficked web and application servers, databases, ad servers, gaming servers, caching fleets, and other time-sensitive use cases.","spans":[]},{"type":"heading1","text":"A delightful developer experience, with add-ons to power your whole app","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"General Purpose Droplets are tightly integrated into DigitalOcean and automatically inherit many qualities and features intended to make you productive and happy.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Arguably, what’s long set DigitalOcean apart from other cloud platforms is the developer experience. While other clouds may feel uninspired and complicated, our platform and General Purpose Droplets are fun and simple. Now – when you create a Droplet within our Control Panel – you can simply select “General Purpose” for your Droplet’s plan. Then, with a simple click of a big green button, you can spin up your General Purpose Droplets in 55 seconds or less.","spans":[]},{"type":"image","url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/NWQ2NWExMTktYTNkZC00MmNmLWE4NmYtYjlkYmJkNmY1ZTE2_gen-purpose-droplet-tutorial-prod-demo.gif?auto=compress,format","alt":null,"copyright":null,"dimensions":{"width":600,"height":377}},{"type":"paragraph","text":"All Droplet types – General Purpose, Standard, and CPU Optimized – include features such as blazing-fast SSD storage, optional Backups and Snapshots, monitoring and alerts, network firewalls, and more.","spans":[]},{"type":"heading1","text":"Some customers have already gotten started. Now you can, too.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Since we launched General Purpose Droplets in Limited Availability just over a month ago, many of our customers have taken them for a spin. One example is Prattle – a startup in St. Louis, Missouri, that provides sentiment data to predict the market impact of central bank and corporate communications. Here’s what their CTO, Bill MacMillan, had to say:","spans":[{"start":6,"end":66,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://blog.digitalocean.com/introducing-general-purpose-droplets-dedicated-vcpus-and-more-memory/"}},{"start":155,"end":162,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://prattle.co/"}}]},{"type":"preformatted","text":"Prattle has been working to move our computational burden into a highly distributed, multi-cloud system to maximize availability and dependability. After creating our DigitalOcean account, we spun up hundreds of General Purpose Droplets, basically within minutes. It was almost shocking how easy it was to run thousands of cores against our production workload. Our experience with other vendors hasn’t been nearly as simple and straightforward. DigitalOcean's launch of General Purpose Droplets has led me to rethink just where we should be putting our resources.\"","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"In the months and years ahead, we’ll continue investing in infrastructure, including additional Droplet types and capacity, so that you can build your applications and your business on DigitalOcean. Early-stage startups should also check out Hatch, our program that helps entrepreneurs launch and scale their businesses in the cloud through learning and sharing via an engaged community of founders, prioritized support, and a year of free infrastructure credits.","spans":[{"start":232,"end":247,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/hatch/"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We can’t wait to see what you do with General Purpose Droplets.","spans":[]}],"blog_post_date":"2019-04-02","tags":[{"tag1":{"tag":"Product Updates","_linkType":"Link.document","_meta":{"uid":"product-updates"}}},{"tag1":{"tag":"News","_linkType":"Link.document","_meta":{"uid":"news"}}}],"_meta":{"uid":"general-purpose-droplets-let-you-do-more"}}},{"node":{"author":{"_linkType":"Link.document","author_name":"Karan Chhina","author_image":{"dimensions":{"width":554,"height":550},"alt":"Karan Chhina","copyright":null,"url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/b43a85223ca42f817f454615a86497acf668d7c3_karan.png?auto=compress,format"},"_meta":{"uid":"karan_chhina"}},"blog_header_image":{"dimensions":{"width":1200,"height":600},"alt":"droplets illustration","copyright":null,"url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/0026a57b93abe5b04413765253903472dab58e11_general-droplets_blog-v4_twitter---facebook.png?auto=compress,format"},"blog_headline":[{"type":"heading1","text":"Introducing General Purpose Droplets: Dedicated vCPUs and More Memory","spans":[]}],"blog_post_content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":"In our 2019 product roadmap update, we highlighted our push up-stack into an Application Marketplace, a managed Kubernetes service, and multiple Managed Database offerings. We're complementing these products by investing in expanding our Droplet infrastructure offerings to help you build and deploy amazing apps.","spans":[{"start":7,"end":34,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://blog.digitalocean.com/whats-new-for-2019/"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We received positive feedback from users when we launched our CPU-Optimized Droplets. At the same time, we heard from users that they wanted the same performance and predictability of dedicated CPU resources, but with higher configurations of RAM. Today, we’re pleased to announce General Purpose Droplets (in Limited Availability) to fill that need.","spans":[{"start":62,"end":84,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/docs/droplets/overview/#cpu-optimized-droplets"}}]},{"type":"heading3","text":"What Are General Purpose Droplets?","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"General Purpose Droplets are optimized to deliver a well-proportioned balance of memory, dedicated CPU, and SSD storage resources. They’re ideal for a variety of application workloads ranging from web apps and databases to larger applications that have higher memory requirements and still demand predictable CPU performance. Some of the use cases for these Droplets are:","spans":[]},{"type":"list-item","text":"Web application hosting","spans":[]},{"type":"list-item","text":"Relational and NoSQL databases","spans":[]},{"type":"list-item","text":"In-memory caches","spans":[]},{"type":"list-item","text":"E-commerce sites and analytics applications","spans":[]},{"type":"list-item","text":"Various enterprise business applications","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"General Purpose Droplets are backed by Intel’s highly performant Xeon Platinum 8168 processors with a clock speed of 2.7GHz and are available in six different configurations ranging from 2 vCPU / 8 GB RAM to 40 vCPU / 160 GB RAM (plan details below). This translates into a 1:4 ratio of dedicated vCPU to memory for most of these plan configurations, which is an ideal ratio of compute to memory requirements for most general-purpose, mainstream applications. Additionally, these plans come with the same highly performant attached SSD storage that our users love on all of our Droplets.","spans":[]},{"type":"image","url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/0c83e76fa3bf05f70a8c7a91014abc5608536254_droplet_lineup.jpg?auto=compress,format","alt":null,"copyright":null,"dimensions":{"width":1500,"height":847}},{"type":"heading3","text":"Performance Class of Droplets Are Production-Grade","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Together, General Purpose Droplets and CPU-Optimized Droplets form our Performance Class of Droplets - virtual machines that offer dedicated hyper-threads from best-in-class Intel processors in a variety of configurations.","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"How do Performance Class Droplets compare to Standard Droplets? Our original Droplet plans, used by millions of developers around the world, offer a variety of shared-CPU configurations that are ideal for running workloads that can handle variable levels of CPU performance and can spike CPU usage as needed. Typical use cases include small web servers, blogs, and dev/test environments.","spans":[]},{"type":"heading3","text":"Plans, Pricing and Availability","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"General Purpose Droplets are available in the following configurations:","spans":[]},{"type":"image","url":"https://images.prismic.io/www-static/503904e62aa183c331a2b9a2ddd3c4a59c7e4de8_general-purpose-pricing-table.png?auto=compress,format","alt":null,"copyright":null,"dimensions":{"width":1744,"height":842}},{"type":"paragraph","text":"General Purpose Droplets are currently available under Limited Availability, and can be provisioned in two data centers – New York (NYC1) and Frankfurt (FRA1). Over the next few weeks we have expansion plans to make these Droplets available in additional data centers globally, so stay tuned. Meanwhile, we hope you head over to the Create Droplet page and take these new Droplets for a swim, eh, spin.","spans":[{"start":55,"end":75,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://www.digitalocean.com/docs/platform/product-lifecycle/#limited-availability"}},{"start":333,"end":347,"type":"hyperlink","data":{"link_type":"Web","url":"https://cloud.digitalocean.com/droplets/new"}}]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Happy coding,","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Karan Chhina","spans":[]},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Senior Product Manager, Compute","spans":[]}],"blog_post_date":"2019-02-26","tags":[{"tag1":{"tag":"Product Updates","_linkType":"Link.document","_meta":{"uid":"product-updates"}}}],"_meta":{"uid":"introducing-general-purpose-droplets-dedicated-vcpus-and-more-memory"}}}]}}}